Jean Piaget’s Cognitive Development Theory ATI

Question 1

What is the age range for the Sensorimotor Stage of development?

Answer 1

0 - 2 Years

Question 2

What is the age range for the Preoperational Stage of development?

Answer 2

2 - 6 Years

Question 3

What is the age range for the Concrete Operational Stage of development?

Answer 3

6 - 12 Years

Question 4

What is the age range for the Formal Operational Stage of development?

Answer 4

12 Years - Adulthood

Question 5

What are the Developmental Characteristics of the Sensorimotor Stage of development?

Answer 5

With increased mobility and awareness, infants explore the world through direct sensory + motor contact.

Object Permanence + Separation Anxiety Occur.

Question 6

What are the Developmental Characteristics of the Preoperational Stage of development?

Answer 6

Children use symbols (words and images) to represent objects + learn to express themselves through language and symbolic gestures, but don’t reason logically.

Question 7

What are the Developmental Characteristics of the Concrete Operational Stage of development?

Answer 7

Children can think logically about concrete objects and can add + subtract.

They understand concepts of reversibility & speciality.
(“I just flipped this switch, and the lights went out. If I flip it again, in the opposite direction, then the lights might come back on again.” - This is an example of thinking in Reversibility

Can classify, socialize, and apply rules.

Deductive reasoning go brrr.

Question 8

What are the Developmental Characteristics of the Formal Operational Stage of development?

Answer 8

Adolescents can reason abstractly + think in hypothetical terms.

They can test hypothesis, and can expand + refine their thinking and reasoning as they achieve cognitive maturity.